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Iron grave markers and decorations were popular during the Victorian era in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, often being produced by specialist foundries or the local blacksmith. Cast iron headstones have lasted for generations while wrought ironwork often only survives in a rusted or eroded state.
The minimalist decoration and lack of embellishment of the early headstone designs reflect the British Puritan and Anglo-Saxon religious cultures. The earliest Puritan graves in the New England states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, were usually dug without planning, in designated local burial grounds.
Visitation stones on Jewish headstones. Marking a grave with stones was customary in Biblical times before the adoption of gravestones. [2] [1] The oldest graves in the Old Cemetery in Safed are piles of rocks with a more prominent rock bearing an inscription. [1] It is not customary in Judaism to leave flowers at a grave after visiting.
More than 44 patriots of the American Revolution are buried in 30 cemeteries in 13 townships, according to surveys done by the Wooster-Wayne chapter.
While families wait for permanent, replacement headstones to arrive, the Muslim Community Center has ordered temporary grave markers.
Stiles Travis, groundskeeper at Topeka's Mount Auburn Cemetery, places a headstone Friday afternoon there for World War I soldier Boyd Mulligan, who died in battle at age 26 in 1918 in France.
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